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Retailers Fail to Prevent Internet Teenage Kicks (May, 2008)
Lack of age verification means 13-17 year olds increasingly free to buy inappropriate material onlineYoung people are using the internet to buy inappropriate material, such as explicit video games, adult DVDs, alcohol and even weapons, because it’s easier than buying it on the high street, according to new research issued today...
Law firms will now be able to verify the identity of customers swiftly and with confidence thanks to a collaboration with GB Group. Easy Convey Ltd, a leading developer of electronic conveyancing products and services, has today announced the inclusion of an electronic identity checking service ...
GB Group Calls For Industry-Wide Approach To Control Problem Gambling Online (March, 2008)
The world’s largest provider of identity based information to the online gaming industry has called for an industry-wide “self-exclusion” process to tackle the issue of problem gambling following the decision by a gambling addict to sue a betting chain for losses incurred after he had ‘self-excluded’ from further activity...
The Exchange Launches Electronic Identity Checking Service Provided By GB Group (February, 2008)
The Exchange, provider of e-services to over 25,500 financial intermediaries, has today announced the launch of an electronic identity checking service, in partnership with identity management specialists, GB Group...
HiFX signs for GB Group's KYC technology (Finextra, 14 November 2007)
One of the world's largest currency exchanges, HiFX, has appointed identity specialist GB Group to protect against money laundering and fraud - and speed up the process of customer verification...
Identity verification specialist, GB Group, has today cemented its position as the largest provider of Know Your Customer (KYC) technology to the UK prepaid card industry by announcing it has now secured the business of all of the UK's top prepaid card providers...
Survey reveals consumer mistrust of businesses over identity fraud (15 October 2007)
Only half (52%) of consumers in Great Britain trust their high street bank or building society to protect their personal details from identity thieves, a new ‘trust’ poll has revealed...
UK consumers distrust businesses over ID fraud (SC Magazine, 15 October 2007)
Nearly half of British consumers do not trust their bank or building society to look after their personal data and prevent identity fraud, according to a new poll...
GB Group ID Check is the right way to work (Mortage Advisor, 11 October 2007)
GB Group's website conducts identity checks for lenders and advisers...It was difficult to see how this facility could be improved...
Major british bookies sign up for GB Group ID software (Online Casinos, 5 October 2007)
Ladbrokes and William Hill sign on for ID verification technology
The United Kingdom technology firm GB Group, which specialises in online electronic ID checks, has signed up two of Britain's major gambling firms for its service. William Hill and Ladbrokes opted for the GB product this week after extensive study...
Intelliflo markets online ID verification (Mortgage Solutions, 2 October 2007)
IntelliFlo has integrated GB Group’s URU online identity checking service into its office system in order to provide online customer ID verification...
IntelliFlo integrates GB Group's online ID checking service into system (Finextra, 1 October 2007)
IntelliFlo - the UK's fastest growing provider of front/back-office solutions to financial intermediaries - has sealed an alliance with Know Your Customer technology specialist GB Group to transform customer ID verification from a pile of paperwork and lengthy delays into a couple of clicks online...
IntelliFlo first to market with online ID verification (1 October 2007)
IntelliFlo - the UK’s fastest growing provider of front/back-office solutions to financial intermediaries - has sealed an alliance with Know Your Customer technology specialist GB Group to transform customer ID verification from a pile of paperwork and lengthy delays into a couple of clicks online...
GB Group has welcomed the announcement yesterday of the new global responsible gambling code from Gamcare, eCogra and the RGA and confirmed that it would be working with its client base to ensure conformance with the principles of the new Code...
William Hill Signs up to ID3® Check from GB for international ID verification (October 2007)
Identity verification specialist, GB Group, has today cemented its position as the world’s largest provider of ID services to the online gambling industry by announcing it has now secured the business of all of the UK’s top operators as outlined in this year’s Power 50...
Blyk deploys security & data service for MVNO launch (Mobile Europe, 28 September 2007)
Blyk, the youth-focused MVNO formed with Orange, has deployed GB's ID3 solution for customer authentication to protect against ID theft and ensure customer data is accurate for advertiser clients...
Tuxedo Begins Use of GB Group’s Know Your Customer Technology (Paybefore.com, 29 August 2007)
Tuxedo Money Solutions, a U.K. provider of reloadable MasterCard branded prepaid cards, is using technology from the GB Group to comply with Know Your Customer policies...
Fighting ID Fraud (Mortgage Finance Gazette, 1 May 2007)
Specialist electronic ID verification company GB Group said that its ID3 verification technology, recently implemented by Beacon Homeloans for its packagers, has been able to reduce fraud by up to 70 per cent and increase customer acquisition by 40 per cent...
New legislation, increased data sharing, electronic verification and background checking are just some of the ways the industry is trying to combat IF fraud. Karen Murray reports…
Stamping out mobile fraud (Mobile Business, 12 June 2007)
Fraud is now at a record high in the UK. According to KPMG’s annual Fraud Barometer, it has hit a 10-year high with cases involving a total of £1bn reaching the courts. With the mobile business peculiarly vulnerable, Paul McManus looks at what can be done to improve the situation …
ABTA announces partnership with GB to fight fraud in the travel sector
ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) has joined forces with international fraud prevention specialist GB to help combat holiday fraud scams and money laundering rackets. The association will be using GB’s web-based URU service to vet owners and directors of travel businesses before handing their licenses...
TUXEDO appoints GB Group as Customer Numbers Rockets for its Know Your Customer Technology
Tuxedo Money Solutions is using the latest Know Your Customer technology from anti-fraud and money laundering specialist GB to comply with Government regulations, as record numbers of new customers sign up to its latest prepaid card...
Power 50 Predicts Industy Growth Through Mergers and Acquisitions in 2007-08
'Reactionary regulation' poses the single biggest threat to the online gambling industry this year, according to a survey of the world’s most influential gambling executives at eGaming Review’s 2007 Power 50 summit held recently at Bovey Castle in Devon, England...
ID3 Check for international ID verification helps block illegal gambling customers
As previously announced, the introduction of new US legislation on 30 September 2006, if signed into law, will effectively make Online Gaming illegal in the USA. GB has responded quickly to this development and announces today that it has extended its international identity verification technology, ID3TM, to include the capability for its clients to monitor the geographic location of their customers...
RE Austin Screens New Recuits Faster, Smarter
Leading employment screening specialists RE Austin has shaved days off its employee checking process thanks to joining forces with fraud prevention specialists GB...
Gaming Wins Announced for GB Group
Europe’s leading provider of electronic age and identity verification solutions, GB, has reported a major increase in the number of identity checks being carried out by e-gaming operators.
ID CARDS on their own will not stop ID FRAUD
Leading fraud prevention expert GB Group has warned that compulsory ID cards are merely one part, and not the whole, solution to the rising problem of identity theft in the UK.
Employee fraud costs UK £13 bn every year
The cost of employee related identity fraud in the UK could soon top £13 billion as criminal gangs infiltrate banks and other businesses with bogus employees planted to help commit fraud, a leading fraud prevention company has claimed.
Killik & Co identifies with GB Group (August, 2005)
Killik & Co, the independent stockbroking and financial planning firm, has recently introduced a new customer registration system, which has reduced significantly the time taken to open a customer account.
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